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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

by William Cronon · 2 Nov 2009 · 918pp · 260,504 words

failed one. The hazards and hard labor of harvesting wheat were the chief reasons that prairie farmers responded quickly when Cyrus McCormick began to sell mechanical reapers from his Chicago factory in the 1840s and 1850s. Risks such as these kept farmers from depending too heavily on any single grain. Although no

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words

cut multiple rows at the same time.28 Several inventors, including Obed Hussey and Cyrus McCormick, share credit for the 1833–34 invention of the mechanical reaper, which could harvest more grain than could five men working with hand scythes. McCormick’s initial model was a crude device that cut the standing

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Energy and Civilization: A History

by Vaclav Smil · 11 May 2017

harvesting caused lower grain losses from ear shattering than broad sweeps with scythes, and the practice was retained in Asia for harvesting easily shattered rice. Mechanical reapers came to American and European grain fields only in the early part of the nineteenth century (Aldrich 2002). Harvests were brought home as sheaves carried

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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre · 23 Apr 2018 · 590pp · 152,595 words

by harnessing industrial age efficiency in the service of war. Men weren’t merely killed by machine guns; they were mowed down, like McCormack’s mechanical reaper cutting down stalks of grain. Machine guns are dumb weapons, however. They still have to be aimed by the user. Once initiated, they can continue

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words

message, “What hath God wrought.” Cyrus McCormick and John Deere were both agricultural workers who tinkered on the side. In 1833–34, McCormick invented a mechanical reaper that could harvest more grain than five men working with hand scythes. In 1837, Deere invented a plow with a polished steel moldboard that successfully

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of land, the Yankees revolutionized agriculture as well as industry. For millennia, farmers had broken their backs harvesting corn with scythes. Thanks to McCormick’s mechanical reaper they could reap ten acres a day while perched on their behinds. The reaper was the tip of an iceberg: the U.S. Patent Office

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words

per year. Woodworking and then bicycles were the next industries to be transformed by the American System of Manufacturing. In 1831 Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical reaper. In 1848 he moved his production to Chicago, making more than 500 each year to sell to farmers on the prairie. Increasing farmer productivity boosted

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch

by Lewis Dartnell · 15 Apr 2014 · 398pp · 100,679 words

the machine by a large cylinder of rotating paddle arms. The basic design hasn’t changed in almost two centuries, and the first horse-drawn mechanical reapers look surprisingly similar to their modern descendents. The combine harvester is undoubtedly one of the most important inventions of recent history, freeing so many of

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us from being required to work in the fields and enabling us to perform other roles in a complex society. RUDIMENTARY MECHANICAL REAPER WITH SWEEPING ARMS (A) AND LOW, SICKLE-LIKE SERRATED BLADE (B). NORFOLK FOUR-COURSE ROTATION As long as you can grow grain for yourself, along

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.zeno.org. 6: Cereal crops from Meyers Konversationslexikon (1905–1909) by Joseph Meyer, reproduced courtesy of www.zeno.org; page design by Bill Donohoe. 7: Mechanical reaper from Meyers Konversationslexikon (1905–1909) by Joseph Meyer, reproduced courtesy of www.zeno.org. 8: Spinning wheel from The Wonderful Story of Britain: The New

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words

Middle Eastern areas into the world economy. It was not just rubber that found new uses; oil, nitrates, even cactus leaves acquired commercial value. The mechanical reaper was transforming American agriculture. Its widespread use occasioned another farm mechanism, a knotting device that bound wheat shafts with twine. Landholders in the poor and

The End of Work

by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words

and reducing the labor time in preparing the soil for seeding. 9 While the new iron-steel plows quickened the spring seeding, the introduction of mechanical reapers, at about the same time, greatly increased the speed of harvesting. As late as the 1840S, farmers were still using hand tools to cut the

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fall harvest. The horse-drawn mechanical reaper cut the work time required to harvest grain by more than half. Cyrus McCormick's reaper gained widespread acceptance in the 1850S and became synonymous

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words

4, 1886, when the bomb exploded. • • • THE FINAL CHAIN of events had started at Chicago’s McCormick Reaper Works earlier in the year. McCormick’s mechanical reaper had once transformed harvesting practices on American farms, lowering the cost of grain for consumers nationwide. By the 1880s the company, now led by Cyrus